Waiting for Women UK
2008, 35min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Dir. of Phot.: Estephan Wagner, Compos.: Roger Goula, Sound: Jeet Thakrar, Edit.: Lawrence Huck
Women have left the remote Spanish village of Riofrio years ago. Only men are left without the slightest hope to find relationship. Not tolerating this agonizing situation any longer, they organize a busload of single women to come from Madrid to alleviate their loneliness. Their dream is to fall in love! But as they have never learned how to deal with women, except for their mothers and some motorway prostitutes, the affair is a failure. Waiting for women is a heart-warming documentary about love and solitude, about gender, migration and hope.
Awards
Special Jury Mention (International Documentary Festival Uruguay), Winner Best Documentary.(Festival La Fila, Valladolid, Spain).
Production Company
National Film & Television School, Wagner Docs
| Wagner, Estephan Estephan Wagner (born 1976, Viña del Mar, Chile)
Chilean/German documentary filmmaker Estephan Wagner studied Theatre at International School of Image and Gesture in Santiago, Chile. He worked as theatre actor and director. In 1999 he moved to Germany to work as film AP and in Post Production. Later he studied film editing. Afterwards he moves to France and works as an editor for ARTE. In the meantime he edits several documentaries as a freelancer. In 2007 he moves to London to get his MA in the Documentary Direction at the NFTS. Waiting for Women, his graduation documentary, was nominated for Best International Student Film at IDFA 2008. It was in the Official Selection of the Gijon IFF, in the Newcomer Section of DocsBarcelona. Heis invited to several festivals in 2009.
Filmography
Ron Suave (2003), Brujula Nomade (2004), Sinners (2007), Pied Piper (2007), New Best Friend (2007), Ease my Pain (2008), Waiting for Women (2008).
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